Travis Charest

Travis Charest is a Canadian comic book artist, penciller and painter, best known as the person who in 1994 took over from Jim Lee during his self-described sabbatical from drawing his hit series WildC.A.T.s. Up to that point, Charest was known primarily for his work as a cover artist for DC Comics on such titles as Darkstars, The Outsiders and Batman.

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Canadian - Comic book - Artist - Penciller - Painter - 1994 - Jim Lee - Sabbatical - WildC.A.T.s - DC Comics - Darkstars - The Outsiders - Batman

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He received the WildC.A.T.S assignment shortly after he joined Lee's Homage Studios, a facility in La Jolla, California where many of the artists working for Lee's Wildstorm Comics work side by side.

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Homage Studios - La Jolla - California - Wildstorm Comics

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Charest's run on WildC.A.T.s, initially with writer James Robinson, and later with Alan Moore, saw his art evolve from being heavily influenced by the work of Lee to a more sophisticated and distinct style of his own. Currently his style is more influenced by poster art from the 1920s and the work of painterly and realistic artists such as Moebius and Frank Frazetta, then by modern comic book action storytelling. With such a distinctive style Charest easily became one of the more sought after artists, reaching a sort of peak with the release of the WildC.A.T.s/X-Men #1 in 1998.

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James Robinson - Alan Moore - Poster art - 1920s - Moebius - Frank Frazetta - X-Men - 1998

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Charest then went on take he assignment as regular penciller on the second WildC.A.T.s ongoing series, over scripts by his WildC.A.T.s/X-Men collaborator Scott Lobdell. However it quickly became evident that Charest could not keep up with the pace of producing a regular comic, due to his his attention to detail and consequent slow pace. He was replaced on the title by Sean Phillips and later left Wildstorm and Homage for french bande dessinee publisher Humanoïdes Associés.

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Scott Lobdell - Sean Phillips - Humanoïdes Associés

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His current project for that publisher, a Metabarons graphic novel, was started in late 2000 and has yet to be completed. His popularity remains high nevertheless, and the artist has maintained a level of approachability through his online groups on both Yahoo! and MSN.

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Metabarons - Graphic novel - 2000 - Yahoo! - MSN

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